Officer in Charge, Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot

Start Date: 2012-03-01End Date: 2013-05-01

Responsible for all aspects of the management and execution of the Navy's Staff Intelligence Support to the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and Navy leadership. Lead a team of 40 intelligence professionals providing daily current intelligence, indications and warnings, and intelligence analysis to operations, policy and plans and acquisition.

Sports Information Director - Tennis

Start Date: 2003-07-01End Date: 2007-05-03

-Served as the Sports Information Director for the varsity women's tennis team. -Authored and designed the annual media guide, wrote all official athletic department press releases, collected and maintained official statistics for the team. -Traveled as play-by-play broadcast announcer for women's soccer, softball, and volleyball teams. -Worked on statistics teams for both women's basketball and gymnastics. -Became proficient in various Adobe design programs through regular job functions.

Sociocultural Analyst

Start Date: 2013-09-01End Date: 2015-04-27

• Research and analyze economies in Latin America which are unstable or at risk for instability, including an assessment of economic, cultural and political activities which could positively or negatively influence stability • Research and analyze sociocultural issues related to indigenous and other affected populations in Latin America/Caribbean and how their activities and interactions with government impacts national/regional stability • Write studies which are disseminated to the intelligence community and inform public policy. These studies have provided a foundation for USSOUTHCOM leadership’s discussions with senior Pentagon officials, have been utilized by Congressional aides and U.S. regional embassies to influence policy decisions, and have been presented at important intelligence community conferences • Establish relationships and coordinate with analysts and officials throughout the intelligence community and subject matter experts from the local academic community to create a network to enrich research • Develop and facilitate courses to train intelligence analysts in carrying out multidisciplinary research

Operations Analyst

Start Date: 2009-12-01End Date: 2010-07-08

• Selected by the Chief of Staff of the Joint Irregular Warfare Center to attend the Joint Irregular Warfare 2010 Seminar Wargame as a subject matter expert on Latin America; results of exercise utilized by the military to prepare for future political crises in Latin America • Analyzed in-depth and wrote a comprehensive report (background, analysis and recommendations) assessing the training methodologies for courses at the Joint Deployment Training Center (JDTC)

Randy Pherson teaches critical thinking skills and structured analytic tools and techniques to analysts throughout the Intelligence Community and the private sector both in the US and overseas. . He and Richards J. Heuer, Jr. collaborated in launching the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) software tool and CQ Press published the second edition of their "Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis" in May 2014. CQ Press will be publishing the second edition of "Case Studies in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action" which he co-authored with Sarah Miller Beebe in July 2014. He also wrote "Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence" with his wife, Katherine Hibbs Pherson in 2012 and the "Analytic Writing Guide" with Louis Kaiser in 2013. Mr. Pherson completed a 28-year career with the Intelligence Community in 2000, last serving as National Intelligence Officer for Latin America. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received a MA in international Relations from Yale University

Colleagues have described Chet Lunner as an unflappable, consummate communicator who has deftly handled everything from hometown radio shows to moderating press conferences on the White House driveway. He has enjoyed highly successful careers in broadcast and print media as a reporter, columnist, editor and national news correspondent; and in public affairs as a press secretary, senior federal executive, political strategist and issues advocate. As a national news correspondent he wrote hundreds of breaking news stories and in-depth features under relentless deadlines. As chief of staff to former Rep. Amo Houghton of New York, he helped create a series of innovative bipartisan initiatives. As a presidential appointee at the Department of Transportation on 9/11, he coordinated the crisis communications, response and recovery media issues for Secretary Norman Mineta and DOT agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Air Marshals Service and U.S. Coast Guard while helping coordinate White House messaging strategy. Lunner was an original member of the team that designed and stood up the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). He went on to become a senior executive at the Department of Homeland Security, specializing in state, local, tribal and private sector counterterrorism efforts and retired in 2010 as a deputy to the DHS chief of intelligence. He currently consults on press relations, political campaigns and issues advocacy, gives public speeches and is an on-air radio and TV analyst on homeland security topics. Specialties: State, local and tribal homeland security and counterterrorism policy; news media relations; press secretary; crisis communications; strategic stakeholder engagement; intelligence and information sharing expertise; multimodal transportation security; national expert in cross-cutting homeland security and intelligence issues for law enforcement, emergency management, intelligence community and political equities.

Deputy Under Secretary, Intelligence

Start Date: 2007-04-01End Date: 2010-06-03

Office of Intelligence and Analysis April 2007 - June 2010 This senior position, reporting directly to the DHS Chief Intelligence Officer, involved the strategic engagement of critical stakeholders inside and outside the Beltway with particular emphasis on the staffing of state intelligence Fusion Centers by qualified federal intelligence analysts. Duties also included supervision and coordination of outreach to DHS' law enforcement partners, liaison on state and local issues with the federal intelligence community and representation of DHS to various boards and committees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). During this tenure, customer satisfaction doubled, the field force tripled in size, and foundational documents such as a strategic growth and communications plan and a set of standard operating procedures were written, adopted and implemented. Member, International Association of Chiefs of Police and National Sheriffs Association homeland security committees.

Assistant Secretary (acting) Office of State and Local Government Coordination

Start Date: 2005-01-01

Represented Secretary of Homeland Security to a wide array of key stakeholders, including Governors, Mayors, Homeland Security Advisors, major city police chiefs, major county sheriffs, emergency managers and Native American community. Played key role as advocate for policy development across State, local, tribal and territorial communities of interest. Liaison to White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Assistant to the Secretary, Director of Public Affairs

Start Date: 2001-03-01End Date: 2003-05-02

Served two parallel roles, as the Department's chief communications officer, and as a senior policy advisor to the Secretary. Chief spokesman and director of public affairs for the DOT and Secretary Norman Y. Mineta before, during and after the horrific events of September 11, 2001. Often that responsibility included helping to craft the President's public message with the White House Press Office regarding national transportation security priorities. Public affairs policy and practice for every DOT component (FAA, NHTSA, Coast Guard, FHWA, FRA, FTA, etc.) was managed through my office. Established critical relationships with important entities including the American Association of Railroads, the American Trucking Association, the Air Transport Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - virtually every major player in the national transportation field. CONGRESSIONAL

Senior Advisor

Start Date: 2010-10-01End Date: 2015-04-27

The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization of the leading companies that bring homeland security solutions to the marketplace. The Council works to ensure that the perspective, innovation, expertise and capabilities of the private sector are recognized, respected and integrated with the public sector. (www.homelandcouncil.org)

Bryan Smith is an independent consultant and a technical advisor to Beacon Global Strategies. He provides strategic and legislative consulting services to companies large and small seeking to position themselves for growth in the intelligence and defense sectors. His unique federal resources management career provides him with a "stand-in" perspective of key Executive Branch and Congressional decision-makers. Bryan has held senior resource management positions in the House and Senate intelligence committees, the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). His diverse national security career also included diplomatic and operational intelligence assignments. Mr. Smith recently retired from federal service as the Budget Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), where he served under Chairman Mike Rogers from 2011-2014. Bryan is also a successful volunteer fund-raiser for church and charity organizations.

Branch Chief, National Security Division

Start Date: 1995-01-01End Date: 1999-10-04

-- Led, in turn, all three branches of OMB's National Security Division,which together comprise the entire Department of Defense's budget, as well as that of the Intelligence Community -- Turned around performance and morale of all three branches, each of which was fraught with personnel problems and underperformance when I assumed leadership, but were all high-performing organizations when I left them after one or two years -- Formulated annual budgets in each area of responsibility -- involved setting "top line" budget levels in negotiations with DoD and the Intelligence Community, and ensuring that Presidential priorities and initiatives were sufficiently supported -- Mediated interagency disputes on funding, personnel, and regulations -- Formulated policy and legislative proposals in my areas of responsibility -- Specific accomplishments included: staffing the President Clinton's first use of his line item veto authority (later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court); terminated a major satellite and a cruise missile program on the basis of poor cost-effectiveness; authored key Presidential transition papers on the defense budget

Foreign Affairs Officer, Verification and Intelligence Division

Start Date: 1984-02-01End Date: 1988-08-04

-- Staff architect of verification regime for the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and for the Strategic Arms Talks (START) -- required expert knowledge of Soviet forces, U.S. intelligence capability, and U.S. policy needs -- Drafted key portions of INF and START treaty text -- Served as Advisor to the U.S. INF Treaty Delegation in Geneva Switzerland during the treaty's "end-game" negotiations in 1983. --- As Co-Chair of the US-Soviet "Elimination Working Group", negotiated the detailed procedures by which INF missiles and launchers would be destroyed. -- Prepared INF verification briefing presented to President Reagan by my agency director, Ken Adelman -- Served as Executive Secretary for the INF Red Team Study prepared for President Reagan -- Performed analysis of Soviet non-compliance with SALT II and represented my agency in inter-agency working groups that recommended Presidential determination on Soviet arms control compliance. -- Represented my agency on the US-Soviet "Bilateral Consultative Commission", which was the forum for discussing compliance concerns with the INF Treaty

Pentagon Policy Action Officer

Start Date: 1983-01-01

Selected to the two-year program in 1983; primary assignment was with the Department of Navy Temporary assignment to the Pentagon in 1985 as an action officer to the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Resources where project responsibilities included a cost-effectiveness study of the Lavi aircraft, a study of remotely piloted vehicles and emerging technologies, as well as membership on the Defense Guidance reorganization and Seawolf attack submarine capabilities task forces

Vencore is a leading provider of full life cycle, mission-focused systems and integration capabilities to the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and other agencies. Its scalable systems engineering platform for modeling, simulation and analysis helps customers baseline requirements, optimize resources and manage risk. The company has 40 years of experience successfully delivering complex, system-of-system technology solutions.

As Acting, then Deputy National Intelligence Officer, Led the 16 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community in preparing the U.S.government's most senior assessments of threats to the U.S., for the President, members of cabinet, and the nation's most senior military leaders. Was Trade Negotiator for the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President; negotiated multi-billion dollar trade agreements for the United States. Wrote, negotiated and passed treaties for the United States Government, in various international fora. Led sensitive programs in the Directorate of Operations, CIA, on four continents. Vice President of McClendon, responsible for strategic marketing direction and business development.

Principal

Start Date: 2001-06-01End Date: 2015-04-13

Founder and Principal: provide financial advisory services to cities, counties, school districts, and other governmental entities throughout the State of Ohio. Emphasis on capital financiing. Particular expertise in economic development finance including TIF financing .

Eric C. Anderson is a faculty member with the National Intelligence University. As a long-standing member of the U.S. intelligence community, he has written over 600 articles for the President’s Daily Brief, National Intelligence Council, International Security Advisory Board and the Department of Defense. In addition, he is a leading scholar on the rise of sovereign wealth funds. His book, "Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity" was published in March 2009. His focus on events in Asia is reflected in a text published in 2010, "China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks Forward to 2020." He has also written on private adoption—telling his daughter’s story in "Adopting Ainsley: There’s No Place for a Car Seat on a Motorcycle" and has just completed "Sinophobia: The Huawei Story." Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Anderson served on the CIA Red Cell, as a member of Hicks and Associates, and at the Defense Intelligence Agency as a senior intelligence analyst. In addition, he has been a senior intelligence analyst for the Multi National Forces-Iraq in Baghdad and at the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii. From 1990-2000, Mr. Anderson was an active duty intelligence officer in the United States Air Force—with assignments in Japan, Korea and Saudi Arabia. He remains on duty as an Air Force reserve officer. He has also taught for the University of Missouri, University of Maryland, and the Air Force Academy. Mr. Anderson has a PhD in political science from the University of Missouri, a MA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University. A long-time Harley rider, Mr. Anderson claims to have put over 200,000 miles on motorcycles during the last 25 years.

Executive Director

Start Date: 2010-05-01

HERD, the agency I work with, is a Nepalese non-governmental organization specializing in research and monitoring works of various natures in the health and social science sectors. We design and implement large scale national surveys at household and health facility level. Likewise, we conduct program based operational research, baseline, endline and evaluative studies. We have been implementing various studies using wider range of methods: RCTs, action research, operational research, ethnographic studs in understanding various aspects of health interventions. We have a strong research team, qualified both in quantitative and qualitative research studies comprising of public health and social science graduates, ethnographer, economists, medics, educationalists and an experienced operations team to meet the requirement of organizational and research logistics. We have significant partnership with different academic institutions, government agencies and donor communities. We have more than a decade long research partnership with the University of Leeds UK, Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, operationalising COMDIS-HSD research in several countries. HERD is dedicated to promote research culture in government and non-government organizations, studies and capacity of individuals/institutions in health research sector and consider every new partnership as an opportunity to further our interest in doing so.